Report
Cross-border links
2025 CSD Links Report
ECSDA's report on CSD links as the secure route to cross-border post-trade access, covering operational requirements, market developments and the case for a unified CSD account approach.
Today, 20 October, ECSDA releases the 2025 CSD Links reports.
CSD links continue to represent the most secure and market-driven enabler of cross-border post-trade access — ensuring the highest standards of asset protection and full legal certainty for securities ownership and transfers.
In this new paper, ECSDA highlights:
- The requirements and challenges of opening and operating a link,
- The benefits for users and the alternatives to cross-border link settlement,
- Recent developments based on the latest data,
- Key policy recommendations to strengthen this efficient market linkage tool, and
- The actions needed to enhance post-trade connectivity in support of the SIU.
🔗 Discover how European CSDs are advancing their joint vision to ensure that all European securities become accessible from a single CSD account.
Tags
- CSD links
- cross-border settlement
- post-trade connectivity